"If I hadn’t had Beckett in 1940 [in Paris, when Van Velde was strongly demoralized by the death of his wife], I’m not sure I could have stood it. I am really not sure …At that time he [Beckett] he was driven by an extremely aggressive and fiery Irish spirit. That has lessened as time has gone on … I don’t know anywhere in modern art any more faithful or more impressive picture of contemporary humanity than the one he offers us in The Unamable."
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Bram van Velde, in Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde (1970), edited by Charles Juliet, p. 79
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Samuel Beckett
1906 – 1989
irischer Schriftsteller
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